Discover your Best Work Life
The Center for Staff Life Design (CSLD) was established to provide access to personal and professional growth opportunities through a well-designed life. Hear from Shari Kramer about how CSLD workshops helped her reframe and identify how her work makes an impact in our communities
Design your Best Work Life Today
Since its establishment in August 2024, CSLD has delivered over 200 workshops and generated over 12,500 engagements from workshops, events, courses, and consultations with staff.
See what CSLD has to offer
Get Curious & Design Your Work Life – CSLD Workshops
📅 Get Curious: Good Work
Observe and record your thoughts, emotions, and experiences related to your work. Explore ways to prototype (test out) activities in your work that energize you.
📅 Imagine Possibilities: Reframing Limiting Beliefs
Learn how to talk about & reframe constraints and problems in your work life, personal life, or professional development path.
📅 Imagine Possibilities: Tiny Habits
Understand how Tiny Habits can help us achieve personal and professional aspirations by getting us going on our goals.
📅 Craft Your Story
Articulate the way your work serves the Hopkins community. Explain your work and its value in a clear and compelling way.
📅 Design Thinking for Leadership Practice
Explore how you can actively engage your team using design thinking.
📅 Experience More: Transferable Skills
Learn how to effectively communicate your skills to potential employers and create a plan to showcase them.
How Does Life Design Work at JHU?
Staff life design is a process that can help you reach your personal and professional goals. If you want to make a change in your life, career, or well-being, the CSLD has resources to help you.
JHU’s life design process includes four key activities:
Get Curious
Articulate your dreams and values, the meaning of work and life, and the aspects of your life that energize you.
Imagine Possibilities
Document your daily activities to help gain a sense of what’s important to you and where you want to be in the future.
Experience More
Create your future plans through experiences and conversations with others, and develop a road map to your future goals.
Craft your Story
Develop your story, and build a support team to help you talk about your life and overcome challenges on your path to where you want to be.
Design Your Work Life at Johns Hopkins
The CSLD tools, workshops, courses, and experiential learning opportunities are highly engaging and packed with valuable information to help you bridge where you are today with what you want to do tomorrow, as well as how you want to do it. Participate in person or online by department, group, or individually.
The Bridge Between Today and Your Future
The Center for Staff Life Design enables JHU staff to explore career interests, develop skills and competencies, connect and build networks with peers and colleagues, and navigate JHU’s career architecture and internal recruitment processes.
CSLD fosters transformative experiences that encourage you to reimagine, design, and build the career and life you want, no matter where your skills, goals, talents, curiosity, and interests may take you.
